peasants
- 1Plural of peasant.
The peasants gathered in the village square to hear the new tax decree.
Across the valley, peasants tilled small plots they did not own.
Note
A regular plural made with a plain -s, with the possessive written peasants'. The trap is the modifier: before a noun the singular does the work, so it is peasant farmers and peasant dress, never peasants farmers. In historical writing the plural often names the rural laboring class as a whole. Aimed at people, as in a sneering "you peasants", it carries the derogatory sense "uncouth, ill-bred."
peasants is a form of peasant
peasant, noun: A member of the low-ranking social class of small farmers, tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers who work the land and form the main agricultural workforce. Full entry
- Forms
- peasantpeasants plural
- Spelling
- peasant → peasants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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